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Globally, we are the foremost Association for the Gallipoli campaign. With genuine passion and enthusiasm, our members strive ... to keep its memory alive. Half a century ago, Gallipoli veteran Major Edgar Banner founded the Association as an informal group of veterans. Since then, membership of the Association continues to grow worldwide, and now stands at over 1,000. We have forged strong links with official and other Gallipoli interest groups, particularly in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, France, Germany and Turkey. The Gallipoli peninsula is located in Thrace, on the European part of Turkey, with the Aegean Sea to the west and the Dardanelles strait to the east. The peninsula runs for about 60km in a south-westerly direction into the Aegean Sea, between the Hellespont and the Gulf of Saros. The ambitious Allied plan of 1915 was to force passage through the Dardanelles Straits and reach Istanbul with a formidable naval force, to achieve Ottoman capitulation and open up the Bosporus. The effective Ottoman coastal and minefield defences thwarted this plan, needing land forces to clear the defences. After some eight months of fighting without achieving their objectives, the Allies evacuated their forces. The Gallipoli Association is a registered charity (No.1155609) with the following objectives: To advance education for the public benefit by raising public awareness of the Gallipoli Campaign of 1915 and by encouraging and facilitating the study in the legacy and lessons of that Campaign, keeping alive the memory of the Campaign and ensuring that all who fought or served in it, and those who gave their lives, are not forgotten by applying such means as the Trustees deem fit. read more